Gap widening between indigenous, other Australians

Children in Australia's Aboriginal communities are six times as likely to be abused or neglected than the country's non-indigenous children, a government report said Thursday.

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Australia backs UN indigenous rights declaration

Australia endorsed a U.N. declaration on Friday that recognizes indigenous rights, reversing years of opposition and promising a new era in relations between white Australians and the nation's impoverished Aborigines.

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Language, laws a challenge for indigenous migrants

When immigration agents arrested 16 farmworkers in a mass arrest of illegal immigrants early this year, legal advocates raced to find interpreters for some of the men, a few who spoke only a language called Mixtec.

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Indians challenging Morales in Bolivia face danger

Evo Morales' opponents have figured out one thing as they look ahead to presidential elections this year: To beat Bolivia's first Indian leader, you need to run an Indian.

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Indigenous spur change in fed's farm worker survey

Catarina Lopez was born and raised in Guatemala and lived there for most of her 46 years, but she is not Latina, although many people think she is.

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A 12-year-old Western Australian boy has made a brief appearance in the Northam Childrens Court charged with receiving a stolen chocolate bar. It is alleged the Freddo frog was given to the boy by a friend, who had stolen it from a supermarket.

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A private company has won a new five-year contract to transport prisoners in Victoria, Australia, despite being implicated in the death of a man in custody early last year in WA (an imprisoned Aboriginal elder was cooked to death)

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Sixty per cent of the population in Australia's remote communities are still affected by the eye disease trachoma, a century after it was eradicated in most developing countries ...Indigenous blindness 6 times that of Whites .

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THE remains of one of Newcastle's most important colonial sites has been uncovered beneath the former Palais Royale nightclub in Hunter Street....

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Massive oil sands exploitation in Alberta is making Canada "one of the biggest climate criminals in the world" - it is having a deadly impact on Indigenous People and also threatens the biosphere and Humanity.

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The UN Human Rights Committee has set out numerous violations of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by Australia including race-based violations involving gross discrimination against Aborigines.

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Aboriginal leader Professor Patrick Dodson says modern challenges such as climate change could provide a way for Australians to learn from Indigenous knowledge and values.

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Report: "One in four prisoners in Australia is Indigenous and their over-representation in the jail system is only getting worse " [Indigenous Australians or Aboriginals are only 5% of the Australian population]

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THE traditional Aboriginal owners of land earmarked for the proposed $200 million Trinity Point Marina are taking legal advice about how to protect sacred artefacts and cultural grounds.

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BOWRAVILLE'S children are haunted by ghostly white lights and favourite son Greg Inglis is no exception. Inglis might have grown into a nightmarish prospect on the football field, but the supernatural force that lurks near his childhood home still makes his 106kg frame tremble.

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"Lakotah, formally and unilaterally withdraws from all agreements and treaties imposed by the United States Government on the Lakotah People.

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Dr Lindy Edwards: "Australia held up a great vision of a democratic, egalitarian society, and we committed atrocities to protect that vision. That is the contradiction that lies at the heart of the Australian experience" (!@#$)

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A 26-year-old Indigenous Australian man died in the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) on Friday afternoon after being diagnosed with the virus on Thursday. He was suffering from several serious conditions.

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THE road ahead for Nathan Jawai is as pitted as the corrugated dirt road leading to his Cape York community of Bamaga.

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Four hundred kilometres in security van, outside temperature reached 42 degrees C, inside the surface of this metal cell steadily increased to over 56C. By mid-afternoon, the Aboriginal man in custody Mr Ward was dead.

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For those of you who haven't seen it yet... From an oversea's show, spliced to view the message from one elder (Floyd Red Crow Westerman)...how America has come and is destined to go.

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Quote: "The Holy See supports the right of your people to a sovereign Palestinian homeland in the land of your forefathers, secure and at peace with its neighbours, within internationally recognised borders"

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Professor William Rubinstein reviews "Denial, History betrayed" by Tony Taylor - in short "a useful book" but also "highly tendentious", notably in relation to the Aboriginal Genocide in which most died from disease.

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A fabulous piece of writing about a subject nobody considers: indigenous refugees created by conservation efforts.

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The Australian Nursing Federation is calling on the Federal Government to reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act and make quarantining of indigenous welfare payments voluntary.

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The Fourth World - March 6th 2009 - - The Intelligent Aboriginal News Service has partnered with other progressive bloggers to form the Aboriginal News Group (ANG), an International association representing Indigenist blog-journalists covering Indigenous/First Nations news.

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The Philippines, with a population of 89 million, is a multiparty republic with an elected president and bicameral legislature. In May 2007 approximately 73 percent of registered citizens voted in mid-term elections for both houses of congress and provincial and local governments.

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The United Nations cultural agency UNESCO says more than 100 languages in Australia are in danger of extinction.

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NEW YORK, Jan 30 (OneWorld.net) - Indigenous leaders from the Amazon basin are calling for intense international scrutiny of the massive abuse of their land, including deforestation, which is making them increasingly vulnerable to the devastating effects of global warming.

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